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Asian Lettuce Wraps

This was meant to be a rice porridge dish but it quickly morphed into a lettuce wrap. (I was too hungry to wait for the rice.) Yummy it was (hello Yoda) – and I didn’t miss the rice!

I was in the process of making one of my favorite breakfast dishes, rice porridge on a bed of lettuce with ground meat garlic stir-fry topping. The stir-fry was a cinch, as stir-fries often are. The rice porridge, on the other hand, was easy to make (just boil and then simmer rice with tons of water) but took forever to cook to the right consistency.

So, when the stir-fry was done and the lettuce was all washed and ready, I decided to start snacking. I remember the little lettuce wrap appetizers from Chinese restaurants and decided to make a little wrap to tie myself over until the rice was done. Lo and behold, one wrap turned into two turned into an entire meal. By the time I was happily full, the rice was still not done!

I don’t know how the Chinese restaurants make them, but here is the version that transpired from today’s porridge-intended dish. Since I hadn’t planned on blogging about this, I didn’t measure the ingredients but it is so easy – you just need to taste and adjust as you cook. The results are super tasty.

Ingredients:

ground turkey (or pork, or chicken)

garlic, chopped (a generous amount)

oyster sauce

fish sauce

dark sweet soy sauce (you can substitute with regular soy sauce and add a little more sugar to the dish)